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The death of Lord Lloyd is a grave loss to

the national resources in brain-power and executive ability, a loss not only for what the late Colonial Secretary was but for what he might have become. For the growth and development of his personality in recent years had been marked. A certain arbi- trariness, which led him to regard his High Commissionership in Egypt in the same light as his previous Governorship of Bombay, in spite of the differences in the circumstances, was steadily disappearing. He took over the British Council from Lord Eustace Percy and conducted its affairs with vigour, imagination and a complete absence of party bias. The same fairness of mind marked his short tenure of the Colonial Office. He might well have found a place in the War Cabinet in no